[PEN-L:861] Re: Re: basic question on Min Wage

[Robert Saute, CUNY Grad Center]

Friends,

        According to Card & Krueger _Myth & Measurement: The New
Economics of the Minimum Wage_ (1995, pg. 238) 87.7% of workers
nation-wide were covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act which mandates
minimum wages.  My notes say that percentage was in 1998, obviously wrong.
The correct date is probably 1988.  Could it be that less than 13% of the
workforce are in the exempt groups below?  What percentage of the labor
force fall into the categories "professional, executive, and
administrative personnel"?


Robert Saute
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Mike Yates wrote:

> Friends,
> 
> There is a complicated set of exceptions to the federal minimum wage
> law, including workers in certain amusement and recreational
> establishments, apprentices, domestic workers not covered by the Social
> Security Act, workers in smll gasoline stations (Less than $250,000 in
> annual sales, certain disabled workers, certain newspaper carriers,
> outside salespersons, professional, executive, and administrative
> personnel, seamen on foreign vessels, certain agricultural workers,
> workers at small telephone exchanges, etc.  See Joseph E. Kalet, "Primer
> on Wages & Hour Law," Bureau of National Affairs, 1990.
> 
> The FLSA does have wide coverage, and many states have their own laws.
> 
> michael yates
> 
> DOUG ORR wrote:
> > 
> > I was recently confronted with the most basic question concerning the
> > minimum wage, and I realized I did not have a precise answer.
> > 
> > Who exactly is covered by the federal minimum wage?  Or more easily,
> > who is exempted?  What about farm workers?  Waiters?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Doug Orr
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
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